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November 8, 2017
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Can I copy and paste text from Word into InDesign 2018 and keep the footnotes?

  • November 8, 2017
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I have read about the new features for footnotes in InDesign 2018 and was wondering, Is it possible to copy and paste, instead of importing, and keep the footnotes built in Word?  Importing doesn't work for the majority of pieces I work on as I have templates built and need to be able to copy and past the test.  I am copying the majority of the text and all of the footnotes are in the text I'm copying and pasting (all together), but they do not transfer into the InDesign document?

Also, while I'm here, I read that if you import it places the footnotes in a separate text frame but that is not what happens for me.  It places the footnote in the same text frame as the main text.

Thanks,

Dave

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Correct answer amaarora

Hi,

You are mixing endnotes with footnotes.

New in Indesign CC 2018 is endnotes

Only endnotes can be created in a separate frame. Footnotes are always part of the same story.

Thirdly, you can try what happens on copy and paste of word text with endnote into InDesign. I would still recommend importing though.

And you can manage how your emdnotes are created from Type-Document endnote options

-Aman

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Randy Hagan
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Randy HaganCommunity Expert
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November 8, 2017

Sort of, but not really.

As far as the text goes, yes you should be able to copy/paste both the text for your narrative and the text for your footnotes into InDesign. But you will not be able to define those elements as narrative text/footnotes independent of the copy itself (e.g. - text reflowing, metadata information and relative referencing).

Alternately, you can use InDesign's footnote functions to generate the independent element information above, cutting and pasting the text itself from your Word document into the appropriate function edit boxes to preclude transcription errors.

Hope this helps,

Randy

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bump_and_runAuthor
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November 8, 2017

Yeah, I thought about the copy and past of the endnotes and I can do that, was just hoping that it would work like the import function.  Thanks!

amaarora
amaaroraCorrect answer
Inspiring
November 8, 2017

Hi,

You are mixing endnotes with footnotes.

New in Indesign CC 2018 is endnotes

Only endnotes can be created in a separate frame. Footnotes are always part of the same story.

Thirdly, you can try what happens on copy and paste of word text with endnote into InDesign. I would still recommend importing though.

And you can manage how your emdnotes are created from Type-Document endnote options

-Aman

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bump_and_runAuthor
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November 8, 2017

Thanks, that clears up a lot.  Can't copy and paste which would make a HUGE difference as importing a word document into a brochure template is a real waste of time.

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